Re: Windows Explorer.exe Crashing
From: Harold (lewtonh_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/31/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:06:45 -0400
Thanks Chad. I'll try what I can. Did you see silversparkles reply?
"Chad Harris" <ddram32_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Harold--
>
> I'm going to assume because you posted here and not in the Beta groups
that
> you have 2162 from one of the Beta sites like Neowin, Bink Nu, or MSFN
that
> always leak builds after MSFT has gone public with a beta of some app,
and
> in this case MSFT went public with RC2 (2149) the first week of June. I
> have a suggestion way short of formatting your box and I don't think you
are
> seeing a legitimate beta bug that's reproducable on that box with your
right
> click problem. That problem is not unknown and right click problems and
> sharing problems and the explorer problems you and silversparkle mention
> show up not infrequently on xp groups.
>
> So I would definitely not label that an SP2 problem --I'd label it a
problem
> with that particular OS on that particular box that you chose to install
> 2162 on. I bet if you download that to one of your other machines you
don't
> see the problem and then you begin to increase your statistical test pool
by
> a factor of 100%--one box with the problems and one box without.
>
> Here's what I suggest:
>
> 1) Uninstall SP2 at Add/Remove. Since the Beta testers have to uninstall
to
> reinstall the new builds every time MSFT Beta tests anything that is what
> they have asked to be done for years and they certainly do with the public
> Beta RC2 on the Technet site, they have pretty carefully crafted an
> uninstall that works although I'm sure with any Beta there could be
problems
> with uninstalls and installs. Having said that, I don't really believe
RTM
> is anything ever but a refined Beta in any Windows OS. That's why there
are
> these newsgroups with all the good help I get on them.
>
> 2) Now you'll be back to XP out of the box or probably if you're like most
> people, XPSP1. Run SFC /purge cache (takes 5 seconds) then run
SFC/Scannow
> on that SP1 box. You will be prompted for your CD I believe, because by
> default the registry points to the CD. Also SFC is not going to give you
> the customary "attaboy" that you've run it successfully on that progress
bar
> on your desktop. You have to go to Event Viewer in Applications or
Systems
> and look for the entry "Windows File Protection" at the time you ran it.
> The attaboy is hidden over in Event Viewer for SFC.
>
> *Then you can do one of two things:*
>
> 3) You can then try SP2 on that box again. Or you can do what I'd
probably
> do and after you Run SFC, I'd do a repair install or what MSFT calls an
> upgrade install only you are upgrading from your OS. It works wonderfully
> well, but there is always the caveat that you don't have 100% guarantee
that
> you may not lose some information so do a current Back Up and a back up is
> always an important step if you are going to play with a Beta--even the
> later pubic beta RC2 or the one of these leaks from the Beta sites like
> Neowin.
>
> I believe a repair/upgrade install is going to fix that box so you can run
> SP2 on it. In the 3rd week of August or thereabouts, SP2 is going RTM.
>
> I would not go to the Recovery Console on that box with the 4 most
commonly
> used repair moves at RC because the RC should be respected as more of a
last
> ditch tool, perhaps with the exception of running chkdsk /r from it unless
> you are one who is very experienced with a n umber of commands in it.
>
> The more extreme step is to format that box, but I don't think you have to
> do that at all at this point.
>
> This is from a nice site from one of the MSFT XP MVP's:
>
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
>
> and this is the MSKB on a Repair versus Parallel Install:
> How to install or upgrade to Windows XP
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941&Product=winxp
>
> I much prefer a *repair or upgrade* install to a parallel install because
> the repair install will restore your settings perfectly and a parallel
> install to another drive or another folder on your OS drive will be much
> more inconvenient and have you trying to get your data out of it.
>
> Good luck and post up what you do,
>
> Chad Harris
> _______________________________________________________________
>
>
> "Harold" <lewtonh@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Ok4ouLldEHA.592@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >I have always used Windows explorer.exe to open multiple files at the
same
> >time by highlighting them, right clicking, and choosing "Open." Never
any
> >problems doing this until after installing XP's SP2 build 2162. Now when
I
> >do the same procedure the files open but Windows explorer.exe crashes
> >wanting to send a message to Microsoft and then it closes down. My files
> >remain open but Windows explorer.exe shuts down. I have tried doing a
sfc
> >/scannow and boy was that a fiasco. In any case, it didn't find any file
> >to replace but I'm not sure it was an accurate run but that is a whole
> >other story.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to fix Windows explorer.exe short of uninstalling
> > SP2?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Harold
> >
> >
>
>
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